Nuts and Volts April 2015

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Nuts and Volts April 2015

Title

Authors

Page#

Techknowledgey

8

Events, Advances, and News (04.2015)

The world’s largest digital camera has been funded, Intel is getting sticky, you can get skin care via your iPhone, plus there’s lots more to read about.

Jeff Eckert

Q&A

12

Reader Questions Answered Here (04.2015)Making a smart house smarter, a telephone off-hook alarm, and radio tuning are question topics this time.

Tim Brown

The Spin Zone

16

Can We Talk? Again?

This month’s project goes through setting up a simple command language for controlling the Propeller through a serial interface.

Jon McPhalen

Build Your Own Arduino Barograph - Arduino

28

Ever built a project that needed an accurate timer to switch something on or off at regular intervals? See if this simple one fits the bill.

Mark McGuire

Build the Super KISS Timer - Arduino

28

Ever built a project that needed an accurate timer to switch something on or off at regular intervals? See if this simple one fits the bill.

Frank Muratore

Build the Annoy-O-Matic - Arduino

32

You’ll always be ready for April Fool’s Day with this easy circuit that will help bring practical jokes to a whole new level.

Bob Diaz

Beyond the Arduino — Part 2

38

Last month, we established a hardware platform to work on. This time, we’ll dive right into working in a new environment.

Andrew Retallack

Add a Real Time Clock to Your PIC Projects

48

RTCs have all kinds of neat uses in microcontroller projects. Get introduced to this wonderful world of timekeeping with the popular and inexpensive TinyRTC.

Thomas Henry

Driving LEDs with a Microcontroller

52

Typically, one of the first experiments people do when working with microcontrollers is to blink an LED. However, the thrill of this wears out pretty quickly, so let’s see what else can be done.

Craig Lindley

The Design Cycle

58

The RN4020 PICtail Plus BLE.Bluetooth 4.0 is becoming the de facto standard when it comes to embedded device monitoring and control from iPhones and Android devices. Microchip’s BLE radio module is called the RN4020. Unlike many of the other BLE offerings, the RN4020 Bluetooth Low Energy radio module comes backed with a full load of example code and hardware development tools. This month, we’ll get started on the BLE path with Microchip’s RN4020 PICtail, a terminal emulator, and a laptop.

Fred Eady

Practical 3D Printing

67

Get your electronics über organized with specially designed storage drawers.

Chuck Hellebuyck

Near Space

70

CubeSats — Part 3: Attitude and VelocityLearn about some “toys” that help CubeSats control their own attitude and velocity.